Glen Charlton, a candidate master from Halifax emerged the winner of
the Lunenburg County Open the weekend April 17, 18, 19, 1998 in
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. In the photo on the left, Glenn Charlton is in the foreground, beginning his last round game with Damir Miletic, also a Candidate Master.
A total of 37 serious chess enthusiasts took part in the three day event an increase from 27 last year. More Lunenburg county chess players took part including three elementary school students. Rex Naugler (Bridgewater) and Steve Saunders (Blockhouse) were the top Lunenburg County Players with 3.5 points. The oldest player was 82!
There was a record number (11) of Lunenburg County residents playing in this tournament:
Rex Naugler (Bridgewater) 3.5 points
Steve Saunders (Blockhouse) 3.5 points
Brian Burgess (La Have) 3.0 points
Bob Hutchinson (Mader's Cove) 2.5 points
Jason Mercer (Lunenburg) 2.5 points
Arthur Grant (Indian Point) 1.0 points
Garnet Bezanson (Lunenburg) 2.0 points
Ian Ross (New Ross) 2.0 points
Curtis Robarts (Blockhouse) 1.0 points
Jeffery Scott (Blockhouse) 1.0 points
Scott Brown (Blockhouse) 0.0 points
Mr. Naugler has also organized a chess club at the Bridgewater Elmentary School, providing instruction and tips for young players.
Mr.Glenn Charlton, the tournament winner, took the lead in the last round of the tournament bydefeating Damir Miletic of Sydney, Nova Scotia. Mr. Miletic is animmigrant from Croitia where he played in world class chesstournaments until the outbreak of civil war there. Mr. Miletic laterdescribed the game as "equally balanced" but missed a 3-move checkmate combination found by Mr. Charlton.
Damir Miletic of Syndey, Nova Scotia,(pictured in the far left of the photograph to the left)
defeated the Maritime Open Champion and Canadian Chess
Master Ed Urquhart (second from the right in the photo),
a St. Mary's University business student, a round earlier.
Mr. Miletic is a recent immigrant to Canada from Croatia were he participated in world class chess tournaments. But the civil war in Yugoslavia interupted his budding international chess career and he became a refugee.
Mr. Miletic and Mr. Urquhart tied for second place overall with Mr. Oh
Ko Kyung (standing in this photograph) of Halifax. The picture was taken at the conclusion of the round 4 game between Mr. Urquhart and Mr. Miletic. Also in the photo on the far right is Tony Verma of Fredricton, New Brunswick.
Here is a list of the class/prize winners:
OVERALL
First: Glenn Charlton 4.5 points
Second-Third: Damir Miletic, Ed Urquhart, Oh Ko Kyong 4.0 points
RATED UNDER 1800
First: Oh Ko Kyong 4.0 points
Second: Jim Hayward 3.5 points
RATED UNDER 1600:
First: Joseph Shea 3.0 points
Second: Bob Hutchinson, Jason Mercer, Saide Sayah 2.5 points
UNRATED:
First: Wang Ko Kyong 2.0 points
Second: Jeffery Brown, Curtis Robarts 1.0 points
Top Junior: Cedric Davies 3.5 points
Top: Senior: Bob Hutchinson and Harold Uuetoa. 2.5 points
Cross Table Lunenburg County Open 1998
Surname Rating 1 2 3 4 5 Sco 1. URQUHART,E 2229 W19 W12 W7 L3 W4 4.0 2. CHARLTON,G 2122 0.5 W31 W17 W9 W3 4.5 3. MILETIC,D 2101 W20 W13 W6 W1 L2 4.0 4. DAVIES,C 2058 W21 W14 D11 W10 L1 3.5 5. MAYO,A 2026 L22 W28 W20 W13 D6 3.5 6. SAUNDERS,S 2022 W23 W16 L3 W11 D5 3.5 7. ELDRIDGE,M 1985 W24 W15 L1 W22 L9 3.0 8. KENNEY,D 1937 0.5 W32 L9 W31 D18 3.0 9. NAUGLER,R 1891 W25 D18 W8 L2 W7 3.5 10. BURGESS,B 1801 W27 D17 W18 L4 D23 3.0 11. HAYWARD,J 1781 W28 W22 D4 L6 W19 3.5 12. KYUNG,O 1776 W29 L1 W24 W14 W21 4.0 13. BERNARD,G 1759 W30 L3 W21 L5 W22 3.0 14. FLEURY,B 1735 W33 L4 W27 L12 W26 3.0 15. ORMST0N,R 1728 W34 L7 L22 L23 W28 2.0 16. UUETOA,H 1708 W35 L6 D31 L18 W16 2.5 17. POIRIER,D 1703 W36 D10 L2 D19 W30 3.0 18. VERMA,T 1697 W37 D9 L10 W16 D8 3.0 19. PETTIPAS,B 1677 L1 W29 W25 D17 L11 2.5 20. HYNES,J 1646 L3 D30 L5 W28 L31 1.5 21. ROSS,I 1591 L4 W33 L13 W27 L12 2.0 22. BOYLE,P 1527 W5 L11 W15 L7 L13 2.0 23. SHEA,J 1495 L6 D* W32 W15 D10 3.0 24. MCGRATH,B 1466 L7 W34 L12 L30 L36 1.0 25. TOTH,S 1460 L9 W35 L19 L* L* 1.0 26. MACLEAN,J 1448 L31 D* D* D29 L14 1.5 27. LOMBARD,L 1416 L10 W36 L14 L21 W37 2.0 28. GRANT,A 1351 L11 L5 W37 L20 L15 1.0 29. BEZANSON,G 1328 L12 L19 W34 D26 D33 2.0 30. HUTCHINSON,B 1303 L13 D20 W35 W24 L17 2.5 31. MERCER,J 1225 W26 L2 D16 L8 W20 2.5 32. KENNEY,B 1054 0.5 L8 L23 W34 L16 1.5 33. SAYAH,S 811 L14 L21 W36 W37 D29 2.5 34. BROWN,J L15 L24 L29 L32 W35 1.0 35. BROWN,S L16 L25 L30 L36 L34 0.0 36. KYUNG,W L17 L27 L33 W35 W24 2.0 37. ROBARTS,C L18 W35 L28 L33 L27 1.0
Our first championship in 1997 had an excellent turnout with 27 participants despite the ice storm. It was also something of a historic event. Ed Urquhart of St. Mary's University, and formerly of Pictou County Nova Scotia, won the championship and in doing so elevated his Chess Federation of Canada rating to the status of "Canadian Chess Master."
Pictured left is Ed Urquhart (left) about to play his main challenger Rob Villeneuve who placed second in the last tournament.
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